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Massive star binaries are critical laboratories for measuring masses and stellar wind mass-loss rates. A major challenge is inferring viewing inclination and extracting information about the colliding wind interaction (CWI) region.…

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We report on the first NuSTAR observation of the gamma-ray emitting millisecond pulsar binary PSR J1723-2837. X-ray radiation up to 79 keV is clearly detected and the simultaneous NuSTAR and Swift spectrum is well described by an absorbed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 A. K. H. Kong , C. Y. Hui , J. Takata , K. L. Li , P. H. T. Tam

We report the detection of probable optical counterparts for two Intermediate Mass Binary Pulsar (IMBP) systems, PSR J1528-3146 and PSR J1757-5322. Recent radio pulsar surveys have uncovered a handful of these systems with putative massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. A. Jacoby , D. Chakrabarty , M. H. van Kerkwijk , S. R. Kulkarni , D. L. Kaplan

We study accretion in binaries hosting an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) of 1000 solar masses, and a donor star more massive than 15 solar masses. These systems experience an active X-ray phase characterized by luminosities varying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Patruno , M. Colpi , A. Faulkner , A. Possenti

In gamma-ray binaries neutron star is orbiting a companion that produces a strong stellar wind. We demonstrate that observed properties of "stellar wind"-"pulsar wind" interaction depend both on the overall wind thrust ratio, as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 Maxim V. Barkov , Evgeniy Kalinin , Maxim Lyutikov

Eclipsing pulsar binaries and binaries with a high mass companion are ideal systems for studying and understanding the properties of plasma in magneto-ionic environments. In this work, the first paper of a series, we present MeerKAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 Jaikhomba Singha , Dongzi Li , Marisa Geyer , Maciej Serylak , Federico Abbate , Senate Lekomola , Robert Main , Andrea Possenti , Amanda Weltman

(Abridged) Among the various issues that remain open in the field of accretion onto black hole X-ray binaries (BHBs) is the way the gas accretes at very low Eddington ratios, in the so-called quiescent regime. While there is general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Gallo , S. Migliari , S. Markoff , J. Tomsick , C. Bailyn , S. Berta , R. Fender , J. Miller-Jones

An internal shock model is proposed to interpret the radio to infrared (IR) emission of the compact jets observed in the hard spectral state of X-ray binaries. Assuming that the specific bulk Lorentz factor of the jet at its base varies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Julien Malzac

The X-ray emission from the massive binary WR 146R is analysed in the framework of the colliding stellar wind (CSW) picture. The theoretical CSW model spectra match well the shape of the observed X-ray spectrum of WR 146R but they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-08 Svetozar A. Zhekov

The colliding winds in a massive binary system generate synchrotron emission due to a fraction of electrons that have been accelerated to relativistic speeds around the shocks in the colliding-wind region. We studied the radio light curve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 R. Blomme , D. Volpi

We have measured dramatic flux and spectral variations through the 0.193d orbit of the optical counterpart of the unidentified gamma-ray source 0FGL J2339.8-0530. This compact object companion is strongly heated, with T_eff varying from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Roger W. Romani , Michael S. Shaw

The optical and UV emission from sub-parsec massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is believed to vary periodically, on timescales comparable to the binary's orbital time. If driven by accretion rate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-12 Daniel J. D'Orazio , Zoltan Haiman

This paper investigates the progenitors of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) with a distribution of long orbital periods (P_orb > 2 d), to show the link between white dwarf (WD) binaries and long orbits for some binary MSPs through the Accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-04 Ali Taani , Awni Khasawneh

Temporal changes of X-ray to very-high-energy gamma-ray emissions from the pulsar-Be star binary PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 are studied based on 3-D SPH simulations of pulsar wind interaction with Be-disk and wind. We focus on the periastron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Takata , A. T. Okazaki , S. Nagataki , T. Naito , A. Kawachi , S. -H. Lee , M. Mori , K. Hayasaki , M. S. Yamaguchi , S. P. Owocki

We present high resolution simulations with RAMSES of supersonic colliding stellar winds. The collision results in a double shock structure which is subject to different instabilities. The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) introduces some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-18 Astrid Lamberts , Sebastien Fromang , Guillaume Dubus , Geoffroy Lesur

We discuss growing evidence that pulsar high energy is emission is generated via Inverse Compton mechanism. We reproduce the broadband spectrum of Crab pulsar, from UV to very high energy gamma-rays - nearly ten decades in energy, within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Maxim Lyutikov

We have used the RXTE and INTEGRAL satellites simultaneously to observe the High Mass X-ray binary IGR J19140+0951. The spectra obtained in the 3--80 keV range have allowed us to perform a precise spectral analysis of the system along its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Prat , J. Rodriguez , D. C. Hannikainen , S. E. Shaw

Context. PSR J0312$-$0921 and PSR J1627$+$3219 are black widow pulsars with orbital periods of 2.34 and 3.98 hours. They were recently detected in the radio and $\gamma$-rays. Aims. Our goals are to estimate the fundamental parameters of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-14 A. V. Bobakov , A. Kirichenko , S. V. Zharikov , D. A. Zyuzin , A. V. Karpova , Yu. A. Shibanov , T. Begari

Several redback and black widow millisecond pulsar binaries have episodes of flaring in X-rays and optical. We initially detected such behavior from the Fermi selected redback candidate 1FGL J0523.5$-$2529 during optical time-series…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Jules P. Halpern , Karen I. Perez , Slavko Bogdanov